I have withdrawn the proposed fix of moving the output to the ~/Desktop
directory as this will have several problem. Users can configure another
directory to be displayed on the desktop and also they could not like
the desktop being cluttered by the generated PDFs. So we will leave the
destination being "~/PDF", as no known application is using this
directory.
The only solution would be using either a D-Bus notification or better a
pop-up asking the user where to drop the file. This would need major
changes to be done by upstream for which it is too late to include them
in Gutsy.
In general it is a much better soplution to have the applications by
themselves generating PDFs via "File"/"Export to PDF ..." or
"File"/"Print ...". OpenOffice.org has "File"/"Export to PDF ..." and
the current printing dialogs of both KDE and GNOME have functionality to
print into a PDF file, actually saving it as PDF, asking the user for
name and location. This is the most intuitive and does not involve any
system process which runs with other rights than the calling user, so it
gives also the maximum security.
cups-pdf is an interim solution for all the apps which did not yet adopt
the latest printing dialogs (especially Firefox and Thunderbird). So we
will remove cups-pdf from Ubuntu as soon as all apps have caught up. In
the mean time we will only sync with upstream and fix bugs.
The real bug is in the apps which do not use the current printing
dialogs.
** Changed in: cups-pdf (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
Status: Fix Committed => Confirmed
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[Tribe5] user don't know where are his pdf file
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